Book workstation for paired users
OwnerLaShanna J. Croixinventor
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Abstract
A book workstation includes a left cover and a right cover, a center spine, and pages sequentially arranged and bound to the center spine. The workbook includes at least one of: a) a left-side underlay and a left-side overlay, each bound to the left-side cover via a left-side spine, or b) a right-side underlay and a right-side overlay, each bound to the right-side cover via a right-side spine. In an open position, the pages can be split into left and right stacks. Indicia on a top page of the left stack are equivalent to indicia on a top page of the right stack. Relative orientations of the indicia enable each of a pair of users to view the indicia on one of the pages at the same time. Each underlay and overlay can be interleaved between pages of one stack, or placed on the top page of that stack.
Claims14
A workbook for simultaneous use by paired users, comprising:
- a left-side cover;
- a right-side cover;
- a center spine flexibly binding a right-side edge of the left-side cover to a left-side edge of the right side cover;
- a text block comprising a plurality of pages that are sequentially arranged and rotatably bound to the center spine between the left-side cover and the right-side cover;
- and
- at least one of:
- a left-side underlay and a left-side overlay, each rotatably bound to the left-side cover via a left-side spine, or
- a right-side underlay and a right-side overlay, each rotatably bound to the right-side cover via a right-side spine,
- wherein, in an open position, the plurality of pages in the text block are configurable in a split arrangement including a left stack positioned adjacent to the left-side cover and a right stack positioned adjacent to the right side cover, wherein a top face of a top page of the left stack includes a set of indicia that is equivalent to a set of indicia on a top face of a top page of the right stack,
- wherein, in the open position, viewing orientations of the sets of indicia enable a first one of the paired users to view the set of indicia on the top page of the left stack and a second one of the paired users to view the first of indicia on the top page of the right stack at the same time,
- wherein each of the at least one left-side underlay and left-side overlay, or right-side underlay and right-side overlay, is configured to be rotatably interleaved between pages of the left stack or right stack, or placed on the top page of the left stack or right stack, respectively,
- wherein the at least one left-side underlay or right-side underlay is opaque, and
- wherein the at least one left-side overlay or right-side overlay comprises a transparent plastic material that is suitable to erasably receive markings applied by a wet-erase or dry-erase pen, and is configured, respectively, to be rotated to form a writing surface on the top page of the left stack or the top page of the right stack, respectively.
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